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Pink Pilled: A Book Event

The Common press
118 Bethnal Green Road, London, E2 6DG (view map)

Friday 21st March 2025 at 7:00 PM

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Pink Pilled: A Book Event

Join us March 21st, as we dig further down Pink Pill: A daring investigation into how women are recruited by the far right online.

As the far right has gained popularity and acceptance around the world, its ranks have swelled with an unlikely category of members: women.

Women play significant roles in far-right movements, acting as propagandists, prizes to be won and mother-warriors of the nation. But up to now their activities have been largely overlooked. In Pink-pilled, journalist Lois Shearing interviews leading experts and infiltrates communities of tradwives and femtrolls to provide a cutting-edge account of how the far right uses the internet to recruit women. Shining a light on women's experiences within these movements, Shearing reveals horrifying examples of misogyny and violence.

Understanding how and why women join movements that explicitly aim to restrict their autonomy is essential if we want to fight back. Pink-pilled offers key insights for countering women's radicalisation and building communities resistant to far-right thought.

About the author:

Lois Shearing is a freelance journalist and author. They are the author of Bi the Way: The Bisexual Guide to Life (2021) and the co-editor of It Ain't Over Til the Bisexual Speaks: An Anthology of Bisexual Voices (2024). Their writing on sex, sexuality, gender, relationship, digital culture and politics has appeared in Cosmopolitan, the Independent, Mashable, the Metro and Gay Times, among others.

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